Nottinghamshire Chess Association

Nottinghamshire County Championship 2008

Robert Richmond

The entry of 48 was up on last year, and there were sufficient entries to run separate Championship and
U150 sections.

David Coates is the new and worthy County Champion, taking the title on Sum of Progressive scores ahead
of Mike Barnes. Rather uncharitably perhaps the best game is the win by Mike in their individual encounter,
since it doesn't reflect the overall quality of play by David (and his 4/4 in other games). White conducts
a pleasing attack with a nice sacrificial finish - it is hard to see where black went wrong.

The All-play-all format of the U150 produced a rather cagey tournament, with a high proportion of draws.
Stephen Foster proved the most consistent. Phil Morgan and Nick London raced away from the field in the U125,
and their draw in the final round was no great surprise.

My thanks to Nottingham High School for the venue and for assistance from John Swain.

Championship

Name

Club

Score

1

David Coates

Grantham

4

2

Mike Barnes

Gambit

4

3

Alex Combie

Newark

2.5

4

Brian Thompson

West Bridgford

2.5

5

David Levens

West Nottingham

2

6

Pete Mercs

Gambit

2

7

Richard Webster

Ashfield

2

U150

Name

Club

Score

1

Stephen Foster

3.5

2

Phil Court

Navigation

3

3

Jonathan Day

West Nottingham

2.5

4

Daniel Lin

West Nottingham

2.5

5

John Tassi

Gambit

2.5

6

John Collins

West Nottingham

1

U125

Name

Club

Score

1

Phil Morgan

Ashfield

4

2

Nick London

Radcliffe & Bingham

4

3

Janos Wagenbach

Mansfield

3.5

4

Keith Roper

Gambit

3

5

Marcel Taylor

Radcliffe & Bingham

3

6

George Murfet

Radcliffe & Bingham

2.5

7

Eamonn Lim

West Nottingham

2

8

Ray Sayer

Ashfield

2

9

Stephen Thacker

West Nottingham

2

10

James Thomson

2

11

Robert Willoughby

West Nottingham

1.5

12

Terry Norris-Hunt

Ashfield

1

U100

Name

Club

Score

1

David Dunne

West Nottingham

4

2

Chris Sargeant

University

4

3

Michael Zhang

West Nottingham

4

4

Allan Brown

Gambit

3.5

5

George Seabridge

Long Eaton

3.5

6

John Crawley

West Nottingham

3

7

Robert Garnett

West Bridgford

3

8

Andrew Garside

West Nottingham

3

9

Ben Hobson

Gambit

3

10

Arun Maini

West Nottingham

3

11

Ross Mackay

West Nottingham

3

12

Andrew Sutton

Navigation

3

13

Ken Heath

Gambit

2.5

14

Alan Kenyon

West Nottingham

2.5

15

Lukasz Kacprzak

Navigation

2

16

James Kenyon

West Nottingham

2

17

Mark Kenyon

West Nottingham

2

18

Neel Kothari

West Nottingham

2

19

Harry Croasdale

1.5

20

Sarwas Mehan

West Nottingham

1.5

21

David Somers

West Nottingham

1.5

22

Charlotte Attwood

Radcliffe & Bingham

1

23

Graham Garside

West Nottingham

0

Other Prizes

U16 Champion - Daniel Lin (Best grading performance by a junior)

Junior Prize - 1st Michael Zhang, 2nd George Seabridge

Senior Prize - 1st = Janos Wagenbach, Allan Brown

Slow Starter prizes - Ross Mackay, Stephen Thacker, Eamonn, Lim

Best Game Prizes

M.Barnes - D.Coates (as discussed above)

R.Garnett - C.Sargeant - The black attack is very smooth after 9. h4? gives him a target to open the h-file.

With an honourable mention to:

N.Kothari - R.Garnett - The exploitation of the c-file by black is simple and impressive.